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WTF?

I wrote this slide deck. It was a presentation I made for a monthly "tech lunch" my team has.

I made it after a couple of weeks of messing with zsh. It was for an audience of 4 other people who knew less about zsh than me. I can't believe someone posted it to HN!

That explains the "this slide deck is getting traffic" email I got from Slideshare this morning.

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I enjoyed the slides. Great job!

Many people like me are new to whole Unix system and need trainings like this. I did not even know that I can upgrade my bash via homebrew.

I don't dare to switch to zsh yet. I'm afraid if it messes up all my bash_profile, rvm stuff and Vim configs. I have a bad memory with fish_fish

Zsh was a drop in replacement for me. Worked perfectly with everything you just mentioned.

zsh touches none of the above. You should be good!

Zsh won't mess with any of your configs. But even if it did, you'll probably never look back anyway once you make the switch. It does everything you're used to Bash doing, except more, and better.

I had just switched to zsh and found your deck when searching for something like "zsh features", I thought "hey this is great for starting out with zsh and maybe a good post for HN". Thank you for releasing it for everyone to see.

I'm glad that you and other people found some value in it. When I saw it here, I was worried the comments would tear it to shreds. :)

It was just a bit of a shock when I clicked the link. Since the link title was slightly different than what I named my slides, I just thought, "oh hey, another zsh comparison, let's see what this guy/gal said"...

Mostly, when submitting a post I refrain from changing the original title but I thought "How zsh is more useful than bash" would be better than the original. BTW I'd probably feel the same way too but the deck seems to be well received

You wrote a powerpoint for a four-person lunch?

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